It's Championship, Not Nationals

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by qwertyuiop[]\

Also if this is international how come all the Reigonals are in the US?(i know that next year this statement will be irrelevant because of the New Zeland Regional)

Uhm, not to go off on too much of a tangent, but they aren't. The Israel, Brazil, Toronto (Canada) and Waterloo (Canada) FRC regional competition events have been around for a while now.

-dave

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Uhm, not to go off on too much of a tangent, but they aren't. The Israel, Brazil, Toronto (Canada) and Waterloo (Canada) FRC regional competition events have been around for a while now.

-dave

Let us not forget New Zealand now. Sorry guys, but for me "Nationals" still rolls off the tongue a little easier than "Championships". You will hear me use both and "Champs" but don't flame me, I am old and you need to give me a little slack. Half of my FIRST experience was "Nationals" and half "Championships". Maybe next year I will leave the old title behind.

[JaneYoung]

Here's a perspective that I look from -
I've been involved with the university where I work for 25 years. Departmental names can change and change again and change again and then - return to their original name. Office names can change. We changed ours several years ago because the original name was causing confusion. Websites change/ update/stay current with the latest information (or should) - so they can promote the university - accurately and efficiently. One of the first changes that occurs when a staff person receives a title change, is a new order of business cards with the correct title. We work on an international level and we have a reputation that we value, market, and promote. As much as possible, everyone throughout the university and its branches, tries very hard to work together to promote the vision, the goals, and the mission of this educational institution. This includes its events.

Some traditional names can take a while to change, that is true, and depending on the impact or lack of - on the scope of the mission - depends on the amount of effort and expenditure put forth to push for the change.

[Swan217]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Let us not forget New Zealand now. Sorry guys, but for me "Nationals" still rolls off the tongue a little easier than "Championships". You will hear me use both and "Champs" but don't flame me, I am old and you need to give me a little slack. Half of my FIRST experience was "Nationals" and half "Championships". Maybe next year I will leave the old title behind.

First of all, the only thing I hate more than people calling the Championships Nationals is people yelling at people calling the Championships Nationals. Everyone knows why they do it. Yeah, I still do it when I'm typing quickly too or being lazy, and yeah when out in public you should be more careful to use the correct terminology.

You all know, there actually is an easy way to fix this terminology. It seems to me that "Regional" is starting to become an outdated term as well as Nationals did. As Regionals have grown, and now we have "Superregionals" now, as well as having competitions that are transnational, it's obvious that "Regional" doesn't adequately define some competitions anymore. So how about this:

GTR in Toronto, Brazil, Israel, and New Zealand should be heretofore known as "National" competitions (And maybe other humongous regionals such as Boston and Great Lakes). The Brazillian Robotics Nationals, the Israeli Robotics Nationals, The New Zealand Robotics Nationals.

Then since you're forced to use the term "Nationals" to describe a currently existing competition, people will stop using it to describe the Transnational Championship*. It's just a psychological trick.


*Idea #2: If you like "nationals" so much, start forcing yourself to call them "transnationals" or "internationals"

[qwertyuiop[]\]

Originally Posted by Dan Swando

*Idea #2: If you like "nationals" so much, start forcing yourself to call them "transnationals" or "internationals"

that makes alot of sense i think that im going to do that now. and are internationals always going to be in georgia?

[KathieK]

FIRST has designated names for the events held in spring for FLL, FTC and FRC: FIRST Robotics Competition Championship, FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship, FIRST LEGO League World Festival. That's what should be used, to provide consistency in our messages to the media, etc., and to be aligned with what FIRST markets the events as.

And the location of the Championship event (as FIRST calls the entire event) changes - in recent memory it has been held at DisneyWorld in Orlando, FL, at the Astrodome in Houston, TX, and most recently at the Georgia Dome/World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA.